%A Christopher D. Green
%A Ellen Munro
%T Implicit Learning of Spatial Sequences
%X Implicit learning for verbal strings generated by a finite state machine (FSM) has been demonstrated repeatedly. No one,
however, has investigated whether such learning can take place when the information to be learned is spatial in nature. In this
study, subjects learned sequences of FSM-generated spatial information displayed on a 3?3 grid. They were able to learn
these sequences faster than subjects similarly set to learn random spatial sequences. As is typical in implicit learning studies,
although the subjects in the experimental group were unable to articulate the rules governing the sequences, they were
nevertheless able to distinguish new grammatical strings from random ones at a rate far above chance.
%D 1995
%K implicit learning, spatial cognition, grammar, syntax
%L cogprints1891